If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat otherswith cruelty...you must fight others but through peace, through dialogue and through educationthen I'll tell him [the Talib] how important education is and that I even want education for your children as well that's what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.