Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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