Quotes

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

We teach people how to treat us.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Awareness without action is worthless.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

There are some sick people in this world.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

God is a loving god.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

People are used to being coddled.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.