Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

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

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.