The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.