Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

Stress never feels as natural as peace does

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.