It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road.
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.