I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It...

They’ll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn’t forget and you mustn’t be ashamed.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think...

Why aren’t you in school? I see you every day wandering around.””Oh, they don’t miss me,” she said. “I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends...

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies.” Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn’t abandon an untenable position.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of your reality is not their reality.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people–the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

Majority of those who would always push you to spend all your money on material things, tend to always be the same ones who wouldn’t help you if you were to start experiencing some financial...

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the “right” pressure.

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

As long as we don’t get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I’ll be okay.

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry...

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He’s been...

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn’t, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can...

At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute...

Nowadays, ads don’t just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here’s a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this...

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies...

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. ‘It is the Æolian harp of style,’ thought Julien. ‘Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save...