This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

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.

I want you, " she said."I told you so, " he said.

The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

The text is your greatest enemy.

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.