Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.