It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.