Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.
I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.