Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

.the fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.