If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

He held a beautiful bouquet of mixed wildflowers and offered them to her. "They missed you." He brushed a kiss on her lips. "Just like me.

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

I've seen things that should get a lot of attention get no attention. I've seen things that were not supposed to be a big deal become the biggest thing in the world.