Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

The rain begins with a single drop

Freedom is to live with dignity

So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif, ” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?”“Is driving a car something shameful?” I answered back.

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.

We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.

Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.