Our experiences tend to support our belief systems.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

I don't get why my fans call me yummy. I mean I'm not a sandwich!

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.