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

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.

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.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.

It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.