Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

Being a word wielder is far better than being a sword wielder. Greatest thing is you can still change the world.

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

I'm too old to be forced.

The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust Funds.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

Dive into the sea, or stay away