“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.”

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.

I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.

I don’t take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

He lives as if death will never come to him, but he dies as if he had never been born.

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Grief is a species of idleness.

A person can’t help their birth.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.