Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.