If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

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.

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.

I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.