Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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 child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him