Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

A faith that is not tested is never proved trustworthy.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.