To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.