Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

When weblame, we give away our power.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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.

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.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.