Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.