My dear, My definition of a free society is a society where it’s safe for me to be me, and for you to be you, completely. Where it’s safe to say what’s on your mind, especially when everyone disagrees. Where it’s safe to believe what you believe, especially when everyone else’s beliefs stand elsewhere. Where it’s safe to swim against the current and be perfectly safe from the other fish. My definition of...

My dear, Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching. That is to say, live openly. Let go of your guards and walls, you’re self-imposed prisons, and return to that joy you knew as a kid. Return to that place where you weren’t afraid to run around the house naked, weren’t afraid to laugh for hours on end, and weren’t afraid to cry candidly. We all visit...

My dear, An intellectual is a person who loves words just because, not because they want to use them elegantly to get something (they can though). An intellectual is a person that reads a book to read a book, not to portray that they’re intelligent. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. … An intellectual is a weird sort of person; their vices include reading, learning, thinking, and...

My dear, Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. Those who believe in magic, mystify my hand up. Those who believe in God, pray for my hand to be raised. Those who believe that there’s a rightful and scientific explanation for everything… continue. Falsely yours, Kurt Vonnegut,...

My dear, I’ll be as patiently as I can possibly be with someone who doesn’t understand something because, well, because they don’t know enough. But I’ll lose my temper instantly if someone calls something stupid and not worth learning just because they don’t want to learn it and remain ignorant. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. … Have you ever seen two groups of...

My dear, If your enemies attack, don’t resort to their level, that’s exactly what they’re hoping for, a counterattack. Your enemies don’t stop fighting you because you’ve outwitted and beat them to a pulp, no – that just makes them lie in wait of an opportunity to retaliate. Your enemies stop fighting when you take the higher road. See we all know the higher road, and we all know who’s taking it....

My dear, Do not make speeches about how the world must change. People never listen to words. But actions, people listen to actions. Be the good you want to see in the world so that people know what a good person looks like, most don’t. Help without asking for anything in return so people see what a kind act looks like, most don’t. And if you see no one around you fighting the tyranny, then be the first person to hold the torch...

My dear, You know what’s worse than failing? Failing before you’ve even tried. Seriously, most people go through life telling themselves they’re failures because they never succeeded at anything, and when you ask them how many things they actually truly tried to succeed at they’ll usually have little to say. Most of them just say they thought things through and that they knew that they were going to fail…...

My dear, You can do anything in the world. Seriously, I’m not joking. You can do anything you want, your parents didn’t lie to you. You can be the best football player in the world, you can writer the best book in the world, you can make the highest grossing movie of all time, you can become incredibly rich materially or spiritually, you can climb the tallest mountain in the world, you can swim the deepest ocean in the world,...

My dear, The man who gets around easily with no car to get around is richer than the one with twenty cars. The man who can eat the simplest of foods with all the pleasures that come from fine dining is richer than the man who eats the top ranked foods from all over the world every day of his life. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. This are not material riches I’m talking about, but transcendent...