The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

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.

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

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

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

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.