I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

Give love and share happiness with the people around you, and never give up fighting for what you believe in.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.

One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block

There is no other reality than nature.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

The speed of time is one second per second.