Advertising is the art of persuasion.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

I loved Lost, from beginning to end.

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Success will ruin your life.