To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.