Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.