Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

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)

....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.