A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge