Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.