I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

We shouldn't have free speech.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.