If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

Dreams are sacred future events

A snowflake falls, so tenderly on your lips, I have learned to love this winter.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.