Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.

Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty.

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.