If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

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

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.