Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.