I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

There is not love where there is no will.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

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

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.