Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

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.

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

My father was a manual worker.

We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.