One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Everybody is their own critic.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

Truthless times need timeless truths.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.