Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.