“Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.”

“My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.”

“Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.”

“When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.”

“It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.”

“I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”

“Your strength is your wealth.”

“Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.”

“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”

“I loved him.I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my name or the color of the sky or any fact written in a book.Could he feel it, too?Maxon broke the ...”

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”