Corporate money is controlling everything.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after youve done that, dream bigger.

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.

Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park

Pain and Happiness are the coverings over reality

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

Drama is something Im good at, I guess.