Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived.

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.