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

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.

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.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85, 000 people and they'll sing it back for 85, 000 different reasons.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

Sometimes I try to do too much.

My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.