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

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

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

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

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

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.