One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

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.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.