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

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.