People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

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.

Tantra like any raw power is defined by the wisdom of its user

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.

The US dollar will make new lows

I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato