It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Never mistrust, unless given a reason.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous...

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.