The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

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.

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.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

What are you looking at? Hale asked. Why are you smiling? I worry when you smile.

There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.