How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

“The press is great power and it can do good as well as harm. If rightly conducted it can guide and instruct public opinion.

“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.”

“no struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men”

“with faith,discipline and selfless devotion to the duty,there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”

“When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.”

“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with the grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.”

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.”

“My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence.”

“You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.”

“Failure is a word unknown to me.”

“Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.”

“I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other and to the world.”

“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.”