This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up— it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.

I always thought about you. From the night I took you home. I never really stopped thinking about you.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.

The sun. I hate the sun.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.