“If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.”

“I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, if you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.”

“There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.”

“It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.”

“No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.”

“...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.”

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”