So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.