As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

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.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

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.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

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

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look that healthy equals beautiful.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.