There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales, ” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

The value of a thought cannot be told.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

At every wedding someone stays home.

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.