Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him