It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.

Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports.

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

You don't kill your way to peace.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.

As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

Experience by itself is not science.