Moods can be contagious. Don't catch or spread a bad mood.

Truth builds trust.

For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.

When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change.

Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work.

Do an evening review at the end of the day to reflect on what went well, and what you'd do differently next time.

When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.