Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

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.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.

The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but just looked like the same devil to me

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Places you go in life - it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.