To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

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