“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.”

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education'.

Not defeated by the rain, not defeated by the wind.

I still have twelve battleships.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.