People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.