Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.