It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention

Something good is a frontier

Prayer is the voice of faith.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.