Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.