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.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

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

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.