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.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

Love is the law of life.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.