It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.

You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.