Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.