Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

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!

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.