If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.