Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from