It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.

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 future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.