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.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

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

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

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.