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.

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

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

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

Awareness is learning implemented.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.