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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.