The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.