When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

If you can't be direct, why be?

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.