When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.'

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

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

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.