Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

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

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.