Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

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.

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

You're not a loser. You're almost as smart as me, which makes you one of the smartest people on the planet.

We don't do the cleaning, the Holy Spirit does

I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

I would love to do something with Coldplay.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.