Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.