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

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.

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

People who tell you exactly what they think of you aren't necessarily enemies.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.