It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

We are responsible for our country before God

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

My friends think its weird that I spray perfume on my feet.

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

I like my coffee light.

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.