Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising aware…

- Adora Svitak

To show that you truly care, you listen.

- Adora Svitak

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

- Adora Svitak

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

- Adora Svitak

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

- Adora Svitak

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

- Adora Svitak

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the e…

- Adora Svitak

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

- Adora Svitak

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

- Adora Svitak