“A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.”

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

It’s the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

They don’t come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I’ve been and the people I’ve met.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

It can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

Make your life a story worth telling.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you’ll learn to become great at your craft because you’ll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

I asked a boy begging on the streets, ‘If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?’ and he answered me with two words: ‘A pencil.’ Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.