Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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