Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Patience is the food of understanding.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.

How long will u be a child in an adults body

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

We were watching Barrons. Why were you watching Barrons? Barrons needs watching.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.

A man is as old as his arteries.