EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

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

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

So the first thing we're gonna do, " I told him, "is push you off the roof.

Have faith in the powers at work, Cressa, because when you do, you’ll believe. And when you believe, mountains become like feathers.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.