George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America’s specialty is to take these small risks for the rest of the world, which explains this country’s disproportionate share in innovations.

Religions and ethics have evolved from promising heaven if you do good, to promising heaven while you do good, to making you promise to do good.

And prosperity is best achieved by preventing bureaucrats from interfering with things they will never understand.