One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

What you think to be a tragedy id God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

Males are the most incomprehensible species.