I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

Words are living force. The words you use create your life.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Some people move our souls to dance.

I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.

Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?