A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

My weapon is literature

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts