It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.