But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, ” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Bullshit. You can paint with a fork, you can kill with a fork. A fork is a tool. Don't let yourself be confined by the definitions of others.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.