A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

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.

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.