Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

A good book written for children can be read by adults