Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.