Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

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

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.