When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

So few grow, because so few study.

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.