Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.