In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.