We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

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.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

An unknown cause is not the same as divine intervention.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.