An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think - looking around me, thinking there's no one else here that looks like me.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

The only realistic choice is to follow your dreams.

I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

I've been described as impatient.

It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.

The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.