The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word My choicest hours Are the hours I spend with You - O God, I can't live in this world Without remembering You

I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.