I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

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.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

Sacred-soul, sacred life.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

who are the brain police?

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.