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

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.

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.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you.

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

Move with the movers.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.