Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

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.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.