If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Communicating is about asking good questions and engaging with each other.

Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.

Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

You shouldn't never regret something that made you smile

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.