“Take 5” Go 5 consecutive days for momentum

Measurement = Motivation

Make it competitive

Have 3-4 motivators for a goal

Avoid white carbohydrates -bread -cereal -rice (includes brown rice) -pasta -potato -tortilla -fried food

4 hours between meals

Take one day off and eat whatever you want, as much as you want

Eat Protein, Eggs, Beef, Chicken, Fish, Pork, Lentils, Beans, Vegetables, Legumes

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.

Self-realization is great.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

I love Alexander Wang!

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

If the grape is made of wine then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.

The USO tours I've been part of have definitely been the highlight of my career and my life.

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.