If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

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.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

We are dust and to dust we shall return.

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

Be as good to yourself as you are to those you love.

Hold the fort! I am coming!