The property of power is to protect.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

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

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.