It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?

Some people would rather be right than free.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.