Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.