Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.

I think brands should go back to being more specialised and focused on particular market segments. Sometimes the business you don’t do is more important than that which you actually do.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

Miracles are experiences that take us by surprise.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.