America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.

I'd love to be a writer one day

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.