I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.