When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

My swag is off the charts.