Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

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.

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

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.

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.