I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.