Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

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

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.