Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.