Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Patience is the art of hoping.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.