Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

As secretary of state Hillary Clinton was rolled by everybody.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.