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.

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

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.

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

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.