The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body.... -ABDUL KALAM

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.