I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

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.

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

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.