The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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.

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.