Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

To be preparedis half the victory.

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.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.