A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this [Barack Obama] administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

Worry... is rust upon the blade.