It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

We the people are the change makers.

I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.