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.

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

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

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

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

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.