A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.

Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.