A company is judged by the president it keeps.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

To be a STAR, you must shine your own light, follow your own path and don’t worry about the darkness, for that, is when stars shine brightest

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Remember how last year there were two more girls than guys and I had to be on the guys' side and dance with all the girls? That was a lot of fun. I love being tall.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.