Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

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.

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.

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.