It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

When doubt is banished, #‎ abundance flourishes and anything is possible.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.