“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”— Jane Austen
“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”— Idries Shah
“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”— Alasdair Gray
“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”— Criss Jami