Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

To beprepared is half the victory.