Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.