To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.