"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''."

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave"

"Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law"

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure"

"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

"America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought."

"I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career."

"The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes."

"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."

"Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure."

"Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies."

"Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age."

"I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society."

"I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia."

"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent."

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

"The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities"

"Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky"

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering"

"Suffering is part of the divine idea."

"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

"Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth."

"When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear."

"A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity."

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."