With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.