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

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.