It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Dust into dust and under dust to lie Sans wine sans song sans singer and - sans end.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.