I think we need to get away from the point where we're always apologizing for a belief in God when, in fact, our nation was founded on a belief in God. Just getting people to focus on things like that is an important message that, unfortunately, our young people are not getting. I think it becomes absolutely crucial. It's time for us to wake up and learn there are such things as values and principles, and school's one of the places where having a time-out to reflect on God and on goodness and on kindness and things like that becomes extremely useful because there may not be any other time in a young person's life for doing that. First, I would say there is no one who does not have obstacles, regardless of where they came from, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
Every single person has problems.
What determines who's going to be successful is how you decide to relate to those problems. At which time it becomes a containing fence. Or you can look at it as a hurdle that you're going to jump over, or go under, or go around or go through. When you begin to look at problems as hurdles rather than containing fences, then you begin to plan rather than give up and decide that they've got you. Married at age 13, shuffled from one foster care situation to another before that, having to work two or three jobs at a time as a domestic to stay on her feet, she certainly had reason to think life had dealt her a bad hand.