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

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.

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

At first people asked us, 'Can you do it?' And we kept silent because we didn't believe in ourselves, we didn't believe that we could do things. Today people no longer say to us, 'Can you?' They say, 'When can you?' Because the Indians finally believe in themselves, they believe they can do things.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.