Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

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

If you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body...." -ABDUL KALAM..

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.