We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.

The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.

You are a human being, not a human body.

If I invite God into my life, I am and always will be good enough.

We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.

We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Don't touch me, I'm diabetic.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.