Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.