Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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 we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.