There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

My heart is yours to break

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.