Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.