The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.