You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Freedom requires guns.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
I think you have moments of doubt and moments where it feels really hard. You certainly have to be patient, and I'm a very impatient person. It's been like when Yoda teaches Luke to be a Jedi; the things that I do professionally have taught me new levels of patience.
I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.