I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

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

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

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Harder The will of God, Greater The blessing will be.

A blind man can see how much I love you

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

When I do ties, I bid them out.

A friend is never an imposition.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.