A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Ho puri dil ki har khwaish teri, Ho khushiyon bhara jahaan tera, Agar tu maange aasmaan ka ek taara, To khuda de-de tumko aasmaan saara.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.