Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.