If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.