Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.