It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.