“Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.”

I am not going to respect. Gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics. Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

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.

We are now all Pakistanis – not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on – and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider’s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

You can’t expect love to be perfect when people aren’t.

Don’t expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

I don’t expect to win awards while working in films.

Expecting people to be our way means we are going against nature.

Positive thinking doesn’t mean to expect good things to happen.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.