"The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other."

“Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.”

“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”

“When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect,”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.”

“There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.”

“At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'”

“Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.”

“You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.”

Source : "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.