The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

My name might be similar, but I'd never say 'Laters, baby.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.