Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.

How often have I lifted my foot to take a peek at what I’m standing on, only to discover that there’s nothing there and that I’ve been confusing ‘falling’ with ‘standing.

If I should be so foolish as to hold ethics as the ignorance of a generation long passed, my life will pass in the ignorance of a generation that handed me what was genius.

Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.

Truth is the thing that protects me from chasing the stuff that will rather quickly end up chasing me.

Ethics and morals are not designed to keep us from walking off the cliff. Rather, they’re designed to keep us from creating the cliffs that we walk off of.

Ethics are not the things that kill my fun. Rather, they are the things that keep me from getting killed by the things that I thought were fun.

No value system formed by man will ever manage the men who formed it.

In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.