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

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.