A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

The future of India lies in its villages

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.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

God has no religion.