Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Power comes from sincere service

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

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.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.