I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

Yoga is so much more about the instructor than it is about the practice itself. It's their point of view and the way they teach that makes the experience so special and opens things up for me.

People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already.

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

If you don't have the roots somewhere, it's very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don't know you, really. They don't know how you feel.