Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

When you finally learn that you are not the smartest person in the room- you will build a better product, have better relationships, and eliminate wasted time.

Utopias are often just premature truths.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.