My dear, It has been my experience that those with no vices have very few virtues. They just haven’t lived enough to have enough true virtues. For living, truly living, means encountering vices which hold you so dearly that you never leave them. And continuing to live with those vices is what develops true virtues. A man cannot be considered strong unless he’s been battle tested. And a person cannot have true virtues unless...

My dear, Here we are. Here we are in an age where we look to the exterior, to the outward, for our enemy. Here we are targeting the rest of the world as if that’s the enemy that’ll bring us down. How wrong we are. ‎America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. If we lose our freedoms it’ll be because we had not taught our children how to...

My dear, We will each be responsible adults. All of us, we will all have responsibilities. This scares the crap out of most of us. And so we try to deter from the path as much as possible. We drink, we travel the world, and we procrastinate. But to our dismay, responsibility is still there – still in our future. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Instead of deterring from responsibility in fear...

My dear, Contrary to belief, a religion does not require that it’s disciples bow down to someone, to go to a certain building once a week, or to self-inflict pain on oneself. In fact, my religion asks none of this from me. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. My religion is within me. When I do wrong, I personally know and have to live with it. And when I do right, I also have to live with...

My dear, You think yourself bad because you’re not helping your loved ones in need. But I call you good, for you’re not helping them with things they can do themselves. See! All they ask of you is of things they can in all power acquire themselves. Things they can do themselves if they put their mind to it. My dear, you are not the worst. The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for...