“How do you know you're not selfish? I'm not sure, but I try my best to align my needs with the group's.”
“If there are winners then there must be losers, but it's not a zero sum game. If you set out to better yourself then it's a net positive for the world.”
“I don't know what's right or wrong, but I'm not going to let anyone stand in the way of me trying to figure it out.”
“Live in such a way that when your parents die, you're a rock, a shoulder to lean on and not one crying in the corner.”
“You can't force a group of people to do something, because it has an enforcement cost. It's better if they do it on their own free will.”
“I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.”
“When you play games you must have limitations, if no limitations no games. The price of being is limitation or you can do or be whatever you like.”
“Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.”
“Who gets to define what's hate speech? The person you least want to, because that's the person that will enforce it on you.”
“Actions speak louder than words, what you say has little to do with what you believe, but the chance of you acting it out is 100%.”
“If you separate the good from the bad and place yourself on side of the good; the odds of that being true is virtually zero.”
“If you think back 12 months and there's still a memory that makes you feel sad, you should write it down as completely as possible.”
“Relationships are important because you may have a problem and the person you're talking to took 40 years to solve that problem and they'll share it with you.”
“The problem is not the problem, the problem is the fact that we have problems. Like how poverty is a thousand problems.”
“Catholicism with its irrationalism was as rational as humans can get. Just like science today.”
“If you don't believe in God then you believe in nothing, and religious people will keep their gods, while you keep your nothing.”
“How to suffer less. The amount of meaning you have depends on the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. Less meaning means less responsibility.”
“The monster you know is better than the one you don't know. But don't be so sure, because the clock is ticking.”
“There's only one reason you remember the past: to be prepared for the future. Unless you're eighty years old reminiscing on a good life.”
“If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't have to worry about the future.”
“If you could be president of the universe, would you accept? We're all cursed to be president of our universe in our own right; in some sense, I already have. But that doesn't mean just me and no one else.”
“You have a better chance of changing the world if your own house is in order; but, you can make an exception for the edge cases (e.g., Martin Luther King, Gandhi).”