"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring."

"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."

"It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back."

"Love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."