The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

Don’t be friends with jerks.

I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.

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

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.