While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.