“Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.”

“Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.”

“Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling ...”

“Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?”

“It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' ma...”

“One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a va...”

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedn...”

“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was a...”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

“Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.”

“In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.”

“Justice is the state that exists when there is equity, balance, and harmony in relationships and in society. Injustice is the state that exists when unjust people do violence to peace and shalom an...”