Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

We are stronger when we listen,and smarter when we share.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

Nothing human surprises me.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.