Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

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.

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.