I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.
Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.
We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.