But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.