One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you - on a regular basis.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.

You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.

Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.

Each generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.