When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

Honour the difficult.

If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.