You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

People often say motivation doesn't last. But neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.