“Being happy sometimes requires us to take a steep path. An unpleasant and even unpopular path. Our rejection and disregard for other people's opinions is sometimes necessary to make ourselves happier. We can't always be the ego graters of others.”

To Die Before Death: The Sufi Way of Life (1997)

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards.

Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

Source: Mind Is a Myth

Larry King Interview (8 September 2003)
Context: I think no matter what we cover, people tend to see what we cover through their own particular political or personal prisms. I always ask people to be specific what they're talking about. You can't cover the Middle East — you can't cover American politics — you can't cover America these days without finding people in one place or another taking exception to what we do. I think it goes with the territory. Keeps me, at least I hope, mindful, always that there's at least one other opinion and sometimes a dozen other opinions. And they all bear accounting for. But not everybody is right you know because somebody says, "well you did X", and you say "well, maybe X is right in some cases".

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).