It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.