Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

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.

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.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Take charge of your thoughts

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.