Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

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.

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.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus on the souls who have actually 'lived' among the thorns.

We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.