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

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.

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.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

Christ's gospel is the only true gospel.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.