I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

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.

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.

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.

While you can’t control everything, you can control more than you think, and you can live your life with a plan that will dramatically improve your chances of ending up at a destination you choose.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

I've found places that are just as beautiful as New England, but this is my home.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.