Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

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

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

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

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist