Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it?

Time had changed the magical to mundane