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

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

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

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.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.