When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness.

I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.