All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

When I didn't have friends, I had books.