When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Art is not democratic. Art is sublime.

Mother is the center of the family

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.