"Our choices from diet to outlook to emotional state directly alter our neural and gene activity at every moment."

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

"He is no longer with me—by my orders—but then that is merel the carrying-out of an order, after all a kind of negative being-with-me, as he would say. As for any independent life which Bashan might le…"

"The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. . . is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of delibera…"

"Modern religious teachings have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues."