“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.”

“Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“When you lose touch with your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.”

“A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.”

“The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“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.”

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I meet someone and look at his or her smile.”