Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.