Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.