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.

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last. That's why God lives within us and all storms pass

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

I was a lousy waiter, dealing with people and having people in your face like that.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!