I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

Something inside of me won't let me play small

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.