A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

No strength within, no respect without.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.