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

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

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

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.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

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

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!