If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul.

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

The secret is to keep yourself interesting.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.