Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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…

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

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.