Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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 goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.