The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

The early worm deserves the bird.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Everybody lies about sex.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.