Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

You'll always be two steps behind me.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.