Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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,

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.