In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.