I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.

I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.

Mistakes are good provided you learn from them, and correct them promptly.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

Love is the beauty

Tobias: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.