Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

To listen to a person is not passive.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.