It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Liberation is not deliverance.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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