The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.