Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

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.