A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.

My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.

Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.