After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.