Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

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

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.