The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument