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

Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

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

I think the media argues all the time with itself.

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.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.