Now, I'm not a fan of climate change models, which I think are— To call them flawed is to barely scrape the surface ... You have climate models that have really no predictive validity;. they're about as valid as the models that scientists use to predict COVID death outcomes.

My objections to the trans-surgical mutilation of children, I believe that to be wrong. I believe it's actually a crime against humanity. The reason I believe that, by the way, is the UN definition of crime against humanity, one of them is involuntary sterilization. My sense is that if you're a medical professional and sterilize a child, that's involuntary sterilization–because they are not qualified to give qualified consent.

Your self-esteem, esteem for yourself, is earned by you doing something difficult for you. When you do something that's incredibly hard and you push through it, your brain starts to have inner pride, not fake ego pride.

Tolerance beyond a certain level is 100%, absolutely, incontrovertible a vice. And when tolerance has got to the point where it's a vice, then it's time to not be so nice.

There's nothing sexual about grown men with false breasts dressing up in negligees, which are clearly sexually provocative, and reading to children. There's nothing sexual about that. Yeah, okay. No. I think I'll burn my eyes out with a sword.

I got a phone call about three weeks ago from Ben Shapiro, but it wasn't Ben Shapiro. It was someone using an AI system to modify their voice in real time using Ben Shapiro's accent and diction. After talking to him for after about a minute, I knew something was up.

On top of the climate models, there are even more radically unstable economic models saying that the consequences of climate change will be catastrophic if you look 100 years into the future. It's like, nobody can make an economic bet 100 years into the future, period. Period, the end.

If you don't drink, you don't miss it. I mean, I don't even think about alcohol ... I don't think about any of that. If you don't take drugs or if you don't have alcohol, it's really easy not to drink it.

I think that the social media companies should split off the anonymous people from the real people. I think they should allow anonymous people to post, and I think you can go read the posts, but I don't think they should be mixed in with real people.

The vision of the future that were generally confronted with now is an apocalyptic vision ... If we don't get our climate emissions, or carbon emissions, under control within the next 50 years, we're going to hit a tipping point, the planet is going to spiral into global boiling, and everyone's going to die ... I don't think there's a shred of evidence for it.

If we could capitalize on our collective intelligence, there's no limit to the number of problems we could solve. I don't think there's any reason at all to assume that we couldn't have the abundant future that we would all dream of and maintain harmony with the environment in a manner that we would deem acceptable indefinitely.

I start every day in a cold plunge now ... There's never a day I look forward to it ... To me, it's a discipline; it's like training my mind.

If the advantage is on the accuser, is for the accuser constantly, then no one can speak anymore ... We have weaponized all sorts of systems of accusation, and we haven't built equivalent systems of defense.

What are the emotions that mess people up in the relationship or their business? It's usually anger or fear ... The antidote to those is gratitude. You can't be angry and grateful simultaneously. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

If you're happy, you are deleting all the things you could be pissed off about and frustrated and worried about in the world. If you're unhappy, you're deleting all the things that are great in your life.

I don't drink or smoke ... I never have. Had a great brother who taught me a lesson: Don't drink, don't drink; and he said, don't smoke. He smoked and he drank, and he was a great guy. He was a handsome, very handsome guy ... I tell people, no drugs, no drinking, no cigarettes.

You know, they say alcohol is tougher than drugs to get off of ... I've heard alcohol is harder to quit than drugs if that makes sense.

The path of least resistance never makes you happy ... You have to push yourself.

I'm not exactly so sure that you should be nice all the time. I think we as a culture have got ourselves into an awful lot of trouble by being a little bit too nice.

You tend to focus more on what you have or what's missing ... You tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control.