A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

There's a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.