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.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

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

I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.