Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

Everybody likes their coffee different.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.