Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.