“Life is a game. You either play it or you get played.”

“You never invest more than you can afford to lose. Never bet your emotional rent money.”

“You don’t have to worry about trusting other people if you can trust yourself.”

“Just because someone shares some DNA with you they get to take your stuff? Call you names? Demean you? Sabotage your relationships and career? No way!”

“Predators seek out prey, prey does not seek our predator.”

“If you have to stop being all of who you are to be half of a couple, that price is too high.”

“The only thing worse than being in a bad relationship for one year is being in it for a year and a day.”

“I would rather be happy and alone than sick with someone else.”

“You never negotiate by ultimatum.”

“I'm not asking you to become cynical or highhandedly judgmental. But I am asking you to attend to factual, observable information to determine the required level of self-protection.”

“If you learn something from having been taken advantage by someone, it becomes tuition. If you don’t, it’s a penalty. If you learned something, look at it as an education.”

“We generate the results in life we believe we deserve. ”

“Everybody has a personal truth.  A personal truth is what you believe about yourself when nobody's listening and nobody's watching.”

“You're either going to live the live the life chosen or the life assigned. I want you to live the life chosen.”

“I'm hard on men, I admit that. When it comes to emotions and relationships, pretty much, we don't get it. We are trainable, it's just we don't practice as much.”

“People that are successful are able to see what success is. They are able to define it in their mind's eye.”

“People that are successful have a strategy from getting where they are to that success. The difference between goals and dreams is a timeline. "Someday" is not a day of the week. You have to work for what you want; not for what you don't want—and I mean every day.”

“The universe rewards action. Successful people take action towards a known outcome. You can't think about it. You have to do it—and you don't do it for a week or a month. You do it until.  Until you get what you want. ”

“Winners do things losers don't want to do.  Winners are willing to take a risk—they're not reckless, but they're willing to take a risk.  And the biggest risk of all is admitting that what you have is not what you want.”

“The defining characteristic of every successful person I've seen: They have passion.”