If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.