There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

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.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?