Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

I think one of the reasons why people tend to fake an entire relationship is maybe they are just afraid of being alone or are lonely right now!

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

I'm ensconced in the soul … and I look around and everything is love.

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.