There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

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.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination