If you will not reprove yourself, ’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!