If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

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.

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

Everything is fair in love and art.

Comfortable in my own skin, I'm madly in love with myself.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

I can clap with one hand.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?