All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

With patience everything comes in due season.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.