The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.