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"Gandhiji, I don't understand you. How can you say one thing last week, and something quite different this week?" "Ah," Gandhi replied,"because I have learned something since last week."

Put your left hand in a bowl of ice-cold water, then in a bowl of lukewarm water ... The lukewarm water feels hot. Then put the right hand in a bowl of hot water and into the same bowl of lukewarm water. Now the lukewarm water feels cold; yet its temperature is constant. The absolute truth is water's constant temperature ... but the relative truth, perceived by the human hand, varied.

From his experience he had evolved the two doctrines, nonviolence and civil disobedience, with which over the next thirty years, he would humble the most powerful empire in the world.

The Gandhi who left South Africa in July 1914 was a totally different person from the timid young lawyer who landed in Durban. He had discovered on its inhospitable table soil his three teachers -- Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Thoreau: a n Englishman, a Russian, and an American.

Gandhi: The difference between what we do and what we could do would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.