I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

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.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.