I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

Think, Act, Become

I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

I don't support violence, period.

I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.