This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

Pray to God, pretending as God is only yours.

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

My first album came out in 1979.