The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

Fall several times doesn't matter, how many times you stand up matters

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

Never curse yourself by limiting your students.

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.