Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.