Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family

Into the Volcano (Wood 2008) holds out the promise of

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.