Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.