Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Nobody's immune to physics. I don't care how big and tough they are.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

My purpose is far greater than my pain

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.