If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on what we do. More important than making predictions is doing things which help bring about this respect.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.