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

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

In moments of uncertainty…i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it’s empowering generations to come.

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

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they’re going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don’t have the life experiences to know what can’t be done.

I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

I don’t think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions.

On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry.