Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

God predestined His chosen people.

I am the waves of the ocean, and I am always in love with the floating white clouds. I sing along with the wind and dance along with your thoughts and imaginations.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

At present our only true names are nicknames.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.