Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

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.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Truth is a pathless land.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all will be made right in the Lord's timing.