Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.