As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.

How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on?

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.