“The great shame is that people are often never as good or as bad as they are held up to be."

The average top executive at a Standard & Poor’s 500 company now makes 550 times what the average worker makes.

Ultimately, the sudden loss of a young luminary offers a powerful message, not only about death but about life choices.

“I know a lot of car thieves who are now Taliban emirs,” he said.

The lessons of legal realism have always been uppermost in my mind when I think about law or about anything else important: Stated reasons are often not the real reasons.

Today the most remarkable young people are the social entrepreneurs, those who see a problem in society and roll up their sleeves to address it in new ways.

"You’ve inadvertently radicalized a bunch of otherwise mellow people."