Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.

To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

For you to win, no one needs to lose.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.