Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

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.

No one can take the shot for you.

Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

They both believed in her even when she didn’t believe in herself.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.