Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.