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?

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.

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.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

They say things about these woods...that there are strange things living here.

Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?

A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird!

People often equate divorce with failure. No one wants to admit to failure, but sometimes it is inevitable. The alternative is a far worse option.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.