It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

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.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.

a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief