Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.

All things are full of gods.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.