It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.