Catch people in the act of doing something right.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.

It is better to err on the side of feeling.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.