"It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago"

“Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.”

“The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.”

“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.”

“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.”

“Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.”

“If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks”

“People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.145, Octagon Press Ltd

“Character is the best security.”