I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

Do everything to the best of your ability.

Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

All experience is good experience.

I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.

I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.

My family fulfills me.

I find a lot of comfort and peace just being outdoors. Whether on a beach or on a path near our house, I would walk for an hour or two, just alone with my own head to think things through.

I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.

this place doesn't look like my America

Love is all about guts. If you have it, you fight with the world. If you don’t, you fight with yourself.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.