Being right can never compete with doing well.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.

Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.

You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another.

The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.