When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame, i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Absolute equals nothingness.

Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.