All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.