There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

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.

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

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.