Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

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.

Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

The democrats are a coastal party.

Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.