Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

After all, if we are co-creators of our reality, as so many philosophies have espoused, then we have a say in how it is, how it goes and our participation in it, right?

The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

Hello, you sick twisted freak.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation