Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

It is enough if God approves of me and all are against me.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.