“If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.”

My business doesn’t keep me warm at night.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I’m stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

I can’t just only be on reality TV and show everything when it’s the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Life is hopefully long, so I don’t know what the future will bring.

You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.

I’m always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Thinking about women who can’t have their own baby, even the first baby, I’m really lucky.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

My biggest ‘don’t’ from the past? Picking my face!

If I am not with my daughter, that’s when all my meetings happen. That’s when I get right on a plane. That’s when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it’s just all with her.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

It can be easy to become ‘friends’ or ‘connected’ with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.

I saw for the first time the earth’s shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. The feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.