If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.