Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

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

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

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it-through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

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.

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.