At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]"Don't they teach you anything in your sch

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.

The wonderful world!

Love is all around us

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I guess you're not gonna be happy til' it's for real. Four year old kids, doing drive-bys on Big Wheels.

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.