People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.