Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Ability is poor men's wealth

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

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

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.