"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.