A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.