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

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.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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.