Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.

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

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

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

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

I think the media argues all the time with itself.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.