Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

There is no victory without a war, no prize without a price, no crown without a cross

Equip yourself for your own needs.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

I don't know WHEN I'll be big enough to play!