Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

Change needs practice. And practice needs patience.

The clearer you are about why you want to accomplish a goal, the easier it will be to figure how to accomplish it.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

Stop me when I'm making too much sense.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.

If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom

It was a dark and stormy night. . .perfect for staying indoors and writing a novel!

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.

I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.