One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.

And woe succeeds woe.

Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.

The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.