Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

When a nation leaves the fate of his country to an ignorant and fool person, then that nation itself will be remembered in the history as ignorant and fool nation!

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

All it takes is one word, one action, one voice. Believe in yourself, and you can accomplish anything!

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.