But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!