“You can't really know God if you ignore his laws, especially the ones that regulate the most intimate spheres of life. You… — David Brooks Life Copy Share Image
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self. — David Brooks Accountability Copy Share Image
“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other… — David Brooks Confrontation Copy Share Image
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them. — David Brooks Fading Copy Share Image
I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change. — David Brooks Change Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Asks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick… — David Brooks Behinds Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the… — David Brooks Confidants Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Art Copy Share Image
The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully… — David Brooks Election Copy Share Image
Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known… — David Brooks Blessed Copy Share Image
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
“There is something heroic about a person in struggle with herself, strained on the rack of conscience, suffering torments, yet staying alive… — David Brooks Growing stronger Copy Share Image
“Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.” — David Brooks Joy Copy Share Image
[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
“If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in… — David Brooks Pregnant Woman Copy Share Image
We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. — David Brooks Choice Copy Share Image
“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds… — David Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to… — David Brooks Being successful Copy Share Image
There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really… — David Brooks Arguing Copy Share Image
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than… — David Brooks Covered Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
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