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.

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.

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.

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.

The ability to make yourself do what needs to be done at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner – irrespective of your feelings – marks the true test of self-discipline.

Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.

Change can only begin with awareness.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Life is a disease.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.