It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.