Once a mother took his son to Gandhi, asking the great leader to tell his son quit eating candies.
Gandhiji tought for a moment and then said: "Come back in two weeks."
Puzzled, the woman took his son home and returned two weeks later.
Gandhi looked at the kid's eyes straight and said: "Quit eating candies!" And the boy never ate a candy in his life again.
Years later, the same woman, asked Gandhi why they had to go back two weeks later just for him to say "no candies."
Gandhi's reply was simple. "Because when you first came to visit me," the Great Soul said, "I was eating candies too."