Snippets of Gandhiji's sense of humor

Once an artist made a sketch of Gandhiji and sent it to him to get his autograph.Returning that sketch Gandhiji wrote to the artist,"who is that ugly man you have made a model by mistake and sent this picture?"

Gandhiji used to slap the people with affection, he loved.One day Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan said to Gandjhiji,"Bapu,you slap the one you love,but you have never slapped me.This means that you donot love me".Looking at the gigantic physique of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan,Gandhiji smiled and said,"I do love you,but i donot slap you because if you return me the same way i will be crushed"

In 1946,Gandhiji went to see Satyavathi,grand daughter of Arya Samaj leader Shraddhananda Saraswathi who was lying in her death bed.Gandhiji said to Satyavathi,"Normally in your last days you should remember Ram[Gandhiji used to refer to God as Ram always].I know that you will not say "Ram Ram" as Arya Samajists dont pronounce the name of Ram as the form of God.So when you are in pain say "Mara Mara"[ so that when it is said rapidly it gets converted into Ram Ram..]!

Story of Alex Hailey

For eight years the struggling young writer wrote incredible numbers of short stories and articles for publication and for eight long years they were rejected.  Fortunately, he didn’t give up and for that he—and America—will always be grateful.
He spent much of his time in the Navy writing a mountain of routine reports and letters.  He learned how to say things eloquently and yet concisely.  After his hitch in the Navy he tried desperately hard to make it as a writer, but despite those eight years and hundreds of stories and articles, he was unable to sell even one.  On one occasion, however, an editor wrote an encouraging note on the rejection slip.  It simply said, “Nice try.”
That would not rate very high on the encouragement list, but it literally brought tears to the young writer’s eyes and he was given new hope and continued to persist.  He simply would not give up.  Finally, after many years of effort he wrote a book that has deeply affected the entire world and helped him to become one of the most influential writers of the ’70s-Alex Hailey and his book, Roots, which was made into one of the most-watched television mini-series of all time.