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

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.

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

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light.

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

I appreciate individualism.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.