Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.

Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.