If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

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.

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.

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

Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelfof glucose, bottled blood, machineryto swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.