A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

Make your life a story worth telling.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.

Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose

Celebrate your life, this is your only life.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

I like stories that affect families.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.