I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Find the balance between the calories you take in and the ones you burn up.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.