There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

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.

When you are open to living and trust the process of life and ready to face all your fears, and not afraid to go astray with life, life definitely comes and talk to you, in its own language.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!

On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew is just as important as a country to a Gentile.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.