Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

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

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.