The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.