The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

Abundance in life comes from generosity.

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

Differentiate with value or die with price.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.