Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.

It's smart to be thrifty.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.