I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best.

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.