you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

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.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

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

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.