The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices

If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.

Life-ahead is timeless fortune.

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.