The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.