Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.
“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”
“No.”
“Then to me you are Paul.”
...
“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.
“My mother never calls me Nathan.”
“Is it Nate?”
“She calls me Honeylips.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.