When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, ” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.