Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.