Not that it really matters, but ... . (A Never Ending Story)

All tools and ideas necessary to create paradise on earth are present for a considerable amount of time. The only reason that this paradise isn't here yet, is that we don't want it (details).

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius)

The leadership of the Western world consists for a large part of morally degraded people, that get the rest of the population to follow them, by exploiting their weaknesses (see Spirituality and rationality).

No clearer prove of the moral degradation of a political or religious leader than the statement: If you're not for me, you're against me.

God may forgive you your sins, but your nervous system won't. (Old maxim)

You should never take more than you give. (Popular song)

Working isn't the ultimate goal of life. Happines is the ultimate goal in life, and for most people this is achieved for a large part through working.

The most common religion on earth is the religion of hypocrisy.

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. (E.T. Bell)

There are remarkable similarities between the individual human shortcoming on the field of  emotions and morality, and the cause of the most important problems of our society.

The most interesting faults are the ones you make yourself. This applies to the personal as well as to the geopolitical field (see Infamous lies)

If faced with a problem or situation having multiple solutions or choices, always choose the one that is the most natural, gradual, growing, unlees there is some compelling reason to do otherwise. When there is a compelling reason to do otherwise, ask yourself three times why this reason is so compelling.

History proves that a war decided on military superiority only lays the groundwork for future wars of retaliation and revenge. (I. Asimov, in History, from The Early Asimov, vol. 2).

The commonly accepted notion that Americans are materialists is pure bunk. A materialist is one who loves material, a person devoted to the enjoyment of the physical and immediate present. By definition, most Americans are abstractionists. They hate material, and convert it as swiftly as possible into mountains of junk and clouds of poisonous gas. (A. Watts, in Does it matter? )

... no one should be expected to do business without the incentive of profit. The actual trouble is that profit is identified entirely with money, as distinct from the real profit of living with dignity and elegance in beautiful surroundings. (A. Watts in Does it matter? )

There is absolutely no substitute for creativity.

When in perplexity, read on. (Old maxim)