Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

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.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.

Anything’s possible, almost.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.