The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Patience is the food of understanding.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

The lost unicorn is in our presence!!

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self