If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.