I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.

Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy "out" for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.