Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.