Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.