Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

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 wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

[Alfred] Kinsey, as you well know, was a complete whacko. Most of his studies have been shown to be false.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.