Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

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.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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