“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”

Make your life a story worth telling.

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

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.

In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006

That’s when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn’t let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way.

Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.