Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

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.

We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

With every word, I drop knowledge.

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.