But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.

I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...

Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.

To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.