It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

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.

God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!

If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.

Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.

I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.