My hope is that girls and women never have to know the effects of war or the absence of peace in their lives—that they can invest in themselves because there is a future that will recognize their talents and provide an outlet for their contributions.

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.

When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that's when you start to shine.