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.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

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

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.