When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.