Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Use softwords and hard arguments.