Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.