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.

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

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Her wide, gorgeous smile was the culprit. It was pure magic. Neighbors lined the parking lot, eager to empty their pockets, all so she'd shine that beam on them.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.