I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

No one says: I broke rules, I broke rules, I broke rules - I broke all the rules. That one. And that one. And that one too. Yes, I did.

Success is not random.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

The conversation of bullets.

We have to keep transforming ourselves to stay relevant for the future.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.