We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

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.

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.