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

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.

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?

Truly, truly, the grace of God is never without any effect.

The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

The first principle of aid is respect.

Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.