If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

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.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.