The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

A crisis + time = humor.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.