I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to… — Robert A. Heinlein

Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.

We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.

What we think of as ‘Physical beauty’ is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness—intelligence—among them.