I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

A man is only as rich as the people around him

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

In New York, f*** isn't even a word. It's a comma.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.