"Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world."

"I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons."

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

"Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable."

"Justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity."

"It is a enduring truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."

"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."