My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

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.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

dont let the old break you; let the love make you

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.