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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Ittakes time to save time.