“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.”

“When you eat right and exercise, you are...treating yourself with respect and acknowledging that you deserve to be healthy and happy.”

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate....Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.”

“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.”

“The purpose of life, after all, is to love it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Whatever you do in life, remember: Think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.”

“I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.”

“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.”