Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. – Robert Bly Category: Rumi
This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. – Rumi Category: Rumi
[Rumi’s words are an] expression of praise and grief and gratitude and play. – Coleman Barks Category: Rumi
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable. – Huston Smith Category: Rumi
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead Category: History
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman Category: Government
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. – Thomas Hobbes Category: Knowledge