The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

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

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.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.