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.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.