You can't make someone be your best friend.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Nobody ever talks about the mean things that girls do to each other.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).

Knowing how to love unconditionally is the ultimate knowledge of life.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.