Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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…

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

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 think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.