If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don't.

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.