Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. I'm just not sure I have the courage to do it.

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

You have to love your job.

I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

When you're playing your part, you don't watch other people - you just play your part.

Our military shouldn't be outgunned.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'