The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

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

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.