You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

They are faithful, even if we are not.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

How awesome is the awe God!

You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?