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

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

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

You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

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

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.