My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

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.

Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Give life a chance.

Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

God's first creature, which was light.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.

I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.