My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

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.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people

When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.