Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.