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

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.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I don't know, I think, in times where I'm really nervous, and I'm really under the pressure the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.