Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

You can't grow a beard if you shave

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

I have always loved Ed Norton and Ryan Gosling. Also Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett.