Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

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.

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.