The best place to begin is always with gratitude.

If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

The body suffers, but the spirit is renewed.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.