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

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

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.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

The fact is certain because it is impossible.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.