Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

Do what you say you will do.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

The silence is becoming more poisonous and I have no one to talk with, not even my own self

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

Art is a big question mark.

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.

I'm a believer and I think that faith is not a bad thing. But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.