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

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.