I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

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.

For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

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