I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.