I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Honesty is very sexy.

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

When faced with the choice, choose happy

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

Hopes, wants and wishes, all cast across the night sky with my heart in tow.

Rights’ are ‘privileges, ’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

No living person could disappear like Sofia. She’d have a go-bag stashed somewhere. Money and passports and disguises, with just enough ice to evaporate.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.