A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

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

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

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.