Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

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.

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great. You must choose what territory you want to conquer.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country!

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!