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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

We all had to search for more words to describe things.