A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.