Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.

Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it.

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

Your face is my heart

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

The belly comes before the soul.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

She turned her can'ts into can's and her dreams into plans.