Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Power comes from sincere service

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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.