The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Ittakes time to save time.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.