Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose.

God's Word makes it very clear that the state of our hearts determines the quality of our "listening ears.

Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

For me, there is safety in playing a woman that is very sexualized and having a woman direct you with that.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.