A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.