When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~