One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.

We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

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

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.