I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Finding the courage to break away from other people’s opinions, and your self-limiting thoughts, could be the most significant breakthrough transformation you make on your journey to success.

It is better to be gentle than rude.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

The currency bill we have would finally do something for China's rapacious policies.

Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?