Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.