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.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.