“Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!”

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position!

Archimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Don’t make friends with shadows; because shadows cannot smile!

The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Stop going to the zoos! Don’t take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

There’s the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there’s the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there’s that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.

Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.