Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

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.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Become acquainted with every art.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.