Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.