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Before You Can Be Anything, You Have To Be Yourself. That's The Hardest Thing To Find.

By The Time They Get To 6th Grade Honor Roll Students Won't Risk Making A Mistake, And Sometimes To Be Successful, You Have To Risk Making Mistakes.

Every Now And Then, A Person Must Do Something Simply Because He Wants To, Because It Seems To Him Worth Doing. And That Does Not Make It Worthless Or A Waste Of Time.

But Happiness Is Not Always Loud And Bright And Crowded. Happiness Ripens Like A Watermelon, Sweet And Rosy On The Inside With Only A Thin Top Layer Altogether Free Of Small Black Pits. And, Like A Watermelon, The Whole Thing Can Be Covered With A Plain Dark Rind.

Claudia Knew That She Could Never Pull Off The Old-fashioned Kind Of Running Away. That Is, Running Away In The Heat Of Anger With A Knapsack On Her Pack. She Didn't Like Discomfort; Even Picnics Were Untidy And Inconvenient: All Those Insects And The Sun Melting The Icing On The Cupcakes. Therefore, She Decided That Her Leaving Home Would Not Be Just Running From Somewhere But Would Be Running To Somewhere.