I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.