I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.

Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.