When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl of pasta, but it's actually just a cup of pasta - the rest is vegetables. It makes me feel less deprived.

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

If this is the freedom you speak of... I want no part of it.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.

And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.