"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."

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history"

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a"

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

"The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands"

"“By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer—it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens’ trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.”"

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"True obedience is true freedom."

"Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men."

"''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''"

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

"A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man."

"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."

"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

"We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -"

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."

"To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind"