When you have self-respect, you have enough.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.