I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

In the classical spiritual definition, a soul mate is someone that you have reincarnated with many times. You find each other in many lifetimes.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.