If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Progress is like wheels that never stop

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

When I became mayor, the city was in tough financial straits.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm definitely a guy's girl.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.