Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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 onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to