We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

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.

Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.

Thinking differently is the key to improvement.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.