I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

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

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

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I grew six inches in a year.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.