I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.

Some memories find a permanent place in the heart, and we remember those times as being sunlit and beautiful

(The Purge), ... A lot of movies say that the silence is a deadly weapon yeah.... it's true!You, never know from where somebody is going to came out and how is going to came out.

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.