Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.