I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.