Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

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.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.