All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.