We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

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

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.