One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

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

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.