We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

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.

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

If God is your world, what have you to fear?

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.

I never thought I'd get to have children; to me [they're] just a miracle.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.