Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.