We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

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.

We weren’t allies, but not being enemies was close enough for me.

Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

Chess is, above all, a fight.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.