“We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, p...”

“Our problems dont stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.”

“I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.”

“Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we cant control the body and its appetites, how can we ...”

“There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples production.”

“Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony...”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”