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.

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.

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.

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

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

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

Hindsight is an exact science.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

What will you do with the time you have left?

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.