The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

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?

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

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