The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

What gets measured gets managed.

The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

You are still going to be you. You'll look a lot the same, only better - much better!

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that there's something to react to.