Dr. Joyce Brothers

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it " or success.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.

When you come right down to it the secret of having it all is loving it all.

The best proof of love is trust.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

No matter how lovesick a woman is she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.