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.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

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

We become what we repeatedly do.

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.