People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.