“I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.”

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

You’re more powerful when talking from your soul.

My life is a stairway to heaven, not a ‘decline into decrepitude.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o’clock or seven o’clock or whatever.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you’ll want or need to be negative.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.

We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

I smoke weed.It’s not an addiction. It’s something I wanna do. It’s not smart though. It’s not good for my body but I’m doing it. I’m not telling people to do it.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.

Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.

Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.

Such alchemy your mystic eyes like a drug I’m addicted to your fiery kisses.