My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding