Sometimes it's good to be not so popular.

Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.

Sometimes you just have to trust people.

I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

A girl's got to have a few secrets.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.

Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.