I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

When people seem angry, sometimes they are simply upset and hurting. Asking the right questions helps them to work through it.

I feel rather a fool writing down my thoughts

The best paths in life are rarely the easiest.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Books are dead men talking.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Missing rubs the soul raw.