When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.