I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.