“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.”

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

God is not a dead equation!

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‘Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.’

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Every actor has three versions of each scene – the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.