Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

You can't steal my joy because you didn't give it to me! Blessed.

I'm the sexiest when I'm happy because it brings out a lot of confidence.

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday.

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

Don’t take yourself too seriously.

I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup, clothes, shoes and other girly things around.

I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there's a beach around that's where you'll find me.

Sabotage is like, so satisfying.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

To experience intimacy in marriage, both partners need to feel safe.

Smile! Accept hatred with love.

Confidence

Stop making excuses and start giving yourself enough reasons why you must eat healthier and exercise regularly. Excuses are your enemies of progress.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.