Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

If each and one of us understands the essence of human values, we will be able to sustain our civilization by living in tranquility and embrace the opportunities that each of us can contribute to our society.