The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

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

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.