It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.