Instead of trying to blend in and be like everyone else, be proud of and celebrate your unique differences and qualities. A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.