I believe in something that I do not yet understand.

In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

The more we learn about flowers, the less silent they are.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

Ethics are the moral compass of a human society that change and adjust over time.

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

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.