When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

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.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.