The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

I am not the ruler of Gujarat, I'm a servant of Gujarat. The environment in which I grew up, seva is treated as a dharma, not power.