How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

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

The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.