On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies. . . Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.
It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world. . . write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.