Morality binds and blinds.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.