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

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

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

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.

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

They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.

Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

It's always important to have the blessing.

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state