As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.