Quotes from Malala Yousafzai

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope.

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

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.

There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'