Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.

Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

There is nothing more positive than having a stronger econ supporting jobs and that's why I believe you should vote remain thank you.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.