You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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