The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

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.