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 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.

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.

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.

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.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.