The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

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.

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.

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.

It's a terrible thing, what we did, ” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it.

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Dimitri: "Don't look at me like that." Rose: "Like what?" Dimitri: "You've got this look on your face that says you think I'm delusional, but you're too nice to say anything.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.