One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.