“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”

“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”

“I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.”

“When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.”

“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.”

“An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.”

“None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.”