A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Why do women always do this? Why are they so eager to blame themselves when someone treats them like sh*t? A guy would take a cheese grater to his tongue before admitting he screwed up.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.