Make a plan. Look at what you're interested in. Get disciplined about something. Allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world and that the world would be a lesser place without that contribution.

You're not going to find something more valuable in your life than a committed relationship with someone that you love that sustains itself across time and that, in all likelihood, produces children. That's life.

The farther out you look in the future... the more your behavior is free will-like, and the closer it is to the present, the more your behavior is determined.

I don't think it's a good thing that our society is now organized so that private companies that control and allow for a tremendous amount of our interpersonal communication have the power or have been forced into the position where they're policing speech.

There are more similarities between men and women across the dimensions of personality, for example, than there are differences. So, on average, women and men are more the same than they are different.

I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that pursuing a career and a family is more difficult for women than it is for men.