We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

I believe in the power of one.

Gentleness is a great strength.

Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

I liked money more than going to school.

Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.