Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Evil thenceforth became my good.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

I love to dance to Robyn, Nicki Minaj and Boney M.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.