If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

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.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.