Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker."

If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.