Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.

If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.

The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.