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

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

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

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.