I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.

Being a highly sensetive person is followed by a lot of infinity pain and grief.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.