Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it...
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
