How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

We are all incredibly different and rather than being something to be ashamed of, that's something to really celebrate.

Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!