The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.