If you're going to start a company, it's not going to be in the millions of dollars, but it's going to be something - for a lot of these kids - out of the trunk of their car, the same way that I did.
The beginnings of all things are small.
I auditioned for my first show in Delhi and got through. There's no fancy story around it, sadly.
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start.
I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.
I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.
