I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.

People become what they expect themselves to become

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.