Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

I do not improvise in heels.

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.