I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground