It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

God has created the world in play.

you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body.... -ABDUL KALAM

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.