If youare 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.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

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 fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.