You can build a much more wonderful company on love than you can on fear.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

Building a business where everyone thrives

That's what leadership is all about: getting somebody to see your vision and believe it's possible.

We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.