It used to be you wanted to marry up.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

The true joy lies in the unpredictability of nature.

Every given moment calls for you to examine the thoughts and beliefs in your mind to ensure that they are constantly in favor of your true destiny on earth.

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.