It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.