Quotes By Joyce Brothers

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

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

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

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

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.

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.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The best proof of love is trust.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.