When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.