Once you start laughing, you start healing.

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

When you are happy, you are sexy

There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

No niche is too small if it's yours.