All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.