If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

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