It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.

Television speeded everything up.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.

Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.

The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.

To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.