Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

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.

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