“You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.”

“You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.”

“It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.”

“when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!”

“But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.”

“The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is.”