A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

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

The great despisers are the greater reverers.