Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Fear usually looks like anger.

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.