At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

Because that, more than any monster, was what Sam had feared: that he was weak and cowardly. He had a terrible fear of being afraid.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.