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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.