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

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?

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.

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.