Where's the bit about Lazarus? he asked.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
It is always healthy to be honest.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.