Own who you are and celebrate it.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?