Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.