Malala Yousafzai

“If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.”

“I want to make this world perfect.”

“Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.”

“I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.”

“My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'”

“The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.”

“A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.”

“Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.”

“I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.”

“He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”

“It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.”

“I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.”

“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”

“I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.”

“I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.”

“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... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.”

“When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.”

“I need to complete my homework on time.”

“Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.”

“On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.”