Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.

A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian. I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.

Life is a series of delicious moments.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.