Melancholy is the joy of being said.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.