Never reward negative behavior. Tolerance is all well and good, but tolerance does not mean rewarding the negative behavior. That's called reinforcement.

The world can be a beautiful place. Sometimes you just have to open your eyes to see it. More often, it seems, you have to close your eyes to see it.

There has to be a better metric for quality of life other than how much money is collected or spent to improve it.

Clarity is a trap that prevents us from greater clarity. If you meet the Buddha, you're supposed to kill the Buddha. Same thing in everything.

If people come to you to solve problems, they see you have worth. But if they choose not to give you something for your worth, they are worthless. But being worthless does not mean that they aren't worth helping. Everything is connected.