People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.