This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

All pain is the same.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

To love yourself is a never-ending journey.