The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

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

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

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

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

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.