Form is useful, but it is secondary.

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.

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

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)

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Service to man is service to god

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.