Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

Like Cupid, your promiseswere just misses.

As long as grace abounds, I will work with all my strength.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

The present is great with the future.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.