Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

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

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

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

We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.