In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.