Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.