Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

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

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

All that I've learned has faded away.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience