The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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