Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.

It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.