Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

God made time, but man made haste.

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.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.