A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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,

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.