For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

No matter if I'm booting extra points, kicking off, punting... whatever. I can kick things far, and I'm willing to do whatever the Colts ask of me.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.