MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

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

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

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

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

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

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