To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

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.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. - Erma Bombeck

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.