Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

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.

You don’t have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life.

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.