Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's first casino, with 1,900 slot machines and eighty-nine table games.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Learning to control your reactions, saves you a lot of explaining, regretting, and apologizing.

The cross is the surest truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.