Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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

... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.