You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."