The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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