It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

You never know where your actions will lead to. But if you don't do anything they will lead you nowhere.

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.