Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

One should just be able to play a perfect game.