With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

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

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

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

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

You get so much out of the extra effort that you put into looking your best.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.