Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

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

A language is like living skin itself.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.