There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

Spirituality nourishes the soul.

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

Be kind. It's very needed to be respectful to all.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.