I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail