An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

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.