I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.

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.

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.