Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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

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.

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

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.