Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering 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

A room without books is a body without soul