We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

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.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts

Young Juiceman, he a flamer!

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?