In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

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.

And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!