If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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 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.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.