The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

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.

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

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Violence begins with the fork.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?