The Sufis, ' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

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.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.