I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

The doctors shrugged their shoulders and grumbled that perhaps if I were to put on weight that would protect me a little - being so thin, I would never succeed in remaining pregnant.